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Monday, June 22, 2009

Yeah, okay, it's just a dirty carpet. Whatever. We've seen much, much, worse. But as mars78 pointed out -- it's a freaking SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE. I can rent a steam cleaner from the grocery store up the street for twenty bucks, and my kids would pay me to let them use it (especially because we don't have any carpets and it would be an extra exciting experience using it on the wood floors).

Is the profit margin really that teeny on real estate that they can't afford the expense? If so, they should consider getting into a more profitable business. Like blogging. That's where the smart money is these days. Uh-huh.

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Wait, in a 16000 square foot house, the most impressive thing to take a photo of was the bedroom where the carpet needs cleaning? If the photographer turns around, is there a stack of twin-size mattresses?

I'm amazed by this listing only having 3 pictures. I've seen listings for 2 bedroom cottages with over a dozen!

Oooh -- did a search by the MLS number and here's the full listing with more pics:http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/Greenwich_CT_06831_1109606393

I was thinking the same thing! Commission off of a 16 million dollar sale had better get me a lot more than three sub par pictures of my house:) In fact the Realtor themselves had better whip out the carpet cleaner!

Now see; from the overall style of the room, I imagine that that spot is wear the man of the house (dressed still in muddy boots from a day of fox hunting) comes in and rogers a wench or two before joining his wife in another wing of the house. Yarrr. And stuff.

Holy crap, clean the freaking carpet! I'm talking to the darned real estate agent, what can they be thinking? It's a sixteen million dollar house, think of the commission. Pay for it your damned selves if you need to!

Also, it says built or renovated (it doesn't specify) in 2007. Really? Because that looks like more than two years worth of dirt at the end of that bed.

I know it is expected that anyone with enough money to buy the joint will massively redecorate anyway. Still, you don't need to let it look neglected.

Possibly no one else is going to get this reference but I believe this to be the much-longed-for bed of Willy, hero of 80s platform game 'Jet Set Willy'. Other rooms not photographed include The Banyan Tree, the Priest's Hole and the Cold Store.

Anyone else see the photoshopping done?? In the first pic of the front of the house the shadows from the trees are so worng! And the inside theres more! Go to the listing that dissimilitude put and you can see it.

Hmm...I'm not convinced that it is dirty. Looks like it may be an exceptionally glossy or synthetic carpet with high pile, and what we're seeing is weird reflections from the flash once the angle of incidence is low enough. Seems to be too many patters within the area in question for it to be simply dirt.

I suspect that the rug is actually an area rug and it looks to be SILK - which when walked on can have an appearance of being darker in more worn areas. I really don't think it is dirty. My soft blue silk rug in my living room does the same thing.